computer noises that drive you nuts....

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I hate hate hate the little clicking noise especially in repeated successsion....Maybe because I associate it with popups....But it stresses me out. I am doing a computer task printing out mapquest maps and I have to back click several times...the noise really makes me cranky.

I know what you mean, I hate those too!

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any windows sound - I clicked to open the program/window etc. I don't need a ding to tell me that I did

I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone

I agree. I find the Windows noises especially annoying if I don't expect them to appear. Humming background noises (loud ventilation systems and so on) are also very annoying in my opinion.

Clicking noise in Internet Explorer...for Windows XP

Go to "Start"

Click on "Control Panel"

Click on "Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices"

Click on "Sounds and Audio Devices" at the bottom.

Click on the "Sounds" tab at the top.

Under "Program Events" scroll down until you find "Windows Explorer"...click on to highlight "Start Navigation".... then go to the "Sounds" drop down box below scroll up and select "None"

Click "Apply" & "OK"

Repeat this process for any other annoying sounds as needed.

The grinding sound is called Disk Thrashing, which happens when the drive is heavily fragmented, best thing to do is to run some maintenance, run the disk cleanup program, then run the disk defragment program, that should cut down on the grinding sound.
My pet peave would be a dirty processor fan

Beeping

Just set sound theme to "no sounds"

The clicking is from the hard drive as the head is accessing parts depending on the application. It does this to conserve space in RAM as this is where the space is vital. Although over 95% of all activity takes place between the CPU and SRAM.

I hate the beeps at switch on. Sometimes it annoys me when I hear "video not plugged in" or "memory not found" beeps. I can tell by the codes, sad aren't I

If you truly hate the sounds, you can do this, and then for good measure go into C:\Windows and remove all the .wav files as well. - Just make sure that you DO NOT remove anything else as well, unless you know exactly what it is that you are removing.

Actually not the hard drive...it's Internet Explorer 7

"Many websites that have been designed to continuously monitor specific events use an automatic refresh to ensure the most recent data is visible. This is usually accomplished either through a REFRESH META tag in the HTML header, or by using JavaScript to set an elapsed time after which the page is refreshed. Other more complicated and sometimes less desirable methods use Flash or Java applets to continuously access data directly from the database.

An often annoying side effect is that Microsoft Internet Explorer (at least on Windows platforms) makes a clicking sound at every refresh, the same sound made when clicking a hyperlink or pressing a form button. Refreshing a web page every five seconds could become the modern-day equivalent of Chinese water torture."

http://www.richardsramblings.com/2004/1 ... ing-sound/

i can tolerate the noises, but the lights on the other hand, it depends. I bought a case fan with a blue LED light cause i thought it would look cool, it did for about an hour. Now its a few years later and i realised, blue LED lights are horribly annoying. I can`t sleep with my computer on cause the light drives me nuts. Its not just that light, if i turn off my computer and forget my speakers on, the blue light on that drives me nuts to the point of having to get up and turn it off, sometimes after even an hour of trying to sleep. Strangely enough, my alarm clock has a red light, which i can fall asleep to even staring at it, and my monitor has a green light that flickers on and off when the computer's off, and even though its annoying, i can tolerate it.


Blue lights just suck.

I've found the sounds in Vista to be much nicer. In XP, I would turn off all the sounds. In Vista, the only sound I've turned off is the sound played when the pop-up blocker blocks something.

Life is better since turning the current sound theme to "no sounds" I hate the "click" of Windows itself, I think IE7+ is crap and would stick to 6. Funnily enough, I can't sleep if I can't hear my fans going as I think "my computer has crashed or powered down due to the OTS taking over."

I used to have all Windows sounds disabled for the longest time, but now I'm kind of okay with them, especially since I usually have music running anyway. It is kind of annoying when a website keeps refreshing itself, though.

As for hard drive clicking, I've got a SATA drive now, that thing is silent

One noise that bugs me to no end is noisy fans I had a video card once that had a noisy fan, eventually I gave up and took it out, and replaced it with a slightly inferior card

There's a blue power LED on my case, and that thing lights up my entire room and literally blinds me to look directly at >_< So I did an old trick I used to do with my Gameboy Color...get a piece of...I always forget what it's called...labelmaker? Those things you type on and they punch out letters on strips of plastic, and you can peel off the wax paper and stick them to stuff...anyway, get a little piece of that tape (that hasn't been used yet) and cut off a piece, cut it into a circle, and stick it right over the offending LED. Idunno if it's all like this, but the roll of tape we have isn't completely opaque, so you can still tell the LED is shining, it's just a whole lot dimmer.